How does KeePass replace username and password by reference? -Chen Weiliang Blog

Updated on: January 2020, 2

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While "replace username and password by reference" is not very commonly used, forInternet marketingFor personnel, it is a very useful technique for using Keepass.

What does "replace username and password by reference" do?

a lot ofE-commerceThe platform has multiple websites of different brands and uses the same account/username and password.

here withAlipay和TaobaoFor example:

Alipay and Taobao use the same account/username and password, but the URLs are completely different.

How to use KeePassHttp+chromeIPass plugin to autofill?

🔗How to use KeePassHttp+chromeIPass plug-in to automatically fill in the form?

▲ In this KeePass tutorial, the chromeIPass extension is auto-populated based on the URL, but records in Keepass can only have one URL field (URL).

In short, the records of using Taobao cannot be autofilled on the Alipay login page.
Of course, the solution to this problem is simple too - create 2 records.
But this introduces a new problem: every time the password is changed, both records need to be modified.

"Replace username and password by reference" to achieve:

Multiple records share the same username and password.
Copy the record and share its username and password.
To change the user name or password, you only need to modify the original record, so as to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

How to use "Replace username and password by reference"

Right-click the record in the main interface of Keepass→[Copy record]→check [Replace username and password with reference]→[OK]▼

Then modify the fields in the replicated record as needed, except for the username and password.
The username and password fields, containing a reference key, are used to point to the original record being copied.

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